Rabbi Ben Herman RABBI BEN HERMAN, assistant rabbi of Congregation Anshei Israel, has received a grant from the PELIE Foundation (Partnership for Effective Learning and Innovative Education) through the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. The eight-week professional development web course will focus on integrating web technology into CAI’s religious school programs. … Read more »
TEMPLE EMANU-EL is one of eight Reform congregations nationwide selected to participate in the Union for Reform Judaism Emerging Young Adult Initiatives Community of Practice, a networking group aimed at discovering new ways to engage young adults in congregational life.… Read more »
BOB SCHWARTZ, formerly of the law firm of Russo, Russo & Slania, P.C., has been named chief executive officer of Southern Arizona Land Trust, Inc. Schwartz also will serve as in-house legal counsel of SALT’s sister company, Family Housing Resources, Inc. SALT and FHR are nonprofit supporting organizations of… Read more »
THE INVISIBLE THEATRE will award its 2013 “Goldie Award” to stage and screen star Valarie Pettiford. The award, which honors a guest artist, was established in 1988 in tribute to Goldie Klein, mother of Invisible Theater’s artistic director, Susan Claassen. Pettiford will perform a concert for Invisible Theatre, “Celebration!”… Read more »
Lee Olitzky THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA has posted the preliminary findings from its Jewish Community Planning Survey at www.jewishtucson.org/planning. The informational study was designed to inform the work of the strategic planning steering committee and task forces; it is not a demographic study and does not represent a statistically… Read more »
THOMAS MILLER is one of seven Arizona artists to win an artist research and development grant from the Arizona Commission of the Arts. Miller’s grant, in the category of literary arts, will allow him to conduct field research for a nonfiction travel narrative, “Don Quixote’s Trail,” tracing places mentioned… Read more »
Ellen Freeman ELLEN FREEMAN has been named coordinator for the LGBT Jewish Inclusion Project of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona. Freeman has a long history of activities in the LGBT non-profit sector. She is also an award-winning professional in media, marketing and business development arenas. A Massachusetts native, Freeman lives… Read more »
LT. COL. JONATHAN E. LOWE recently became the squadron commander of the 348th Recruiting Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, near Salt Lake City, Utah. Lowe is the son of Anne and David Lowe of Marana. BRYCE MEGDAL was named Tucson Photographer of the Year by RAW Natural Born… Read more »
ST. GREGORY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL has appointed Julie A. Sherrill, Ph.D., as the new head of school effective July 2013. Sherrill is currently principal at Sunrise Drive Elementary School in the Catalina Foothills School District. Sherrill began her career as a high school teacher in California and Ohio after… Read more »
MIKI PAUL, Ph.D., presented the keynote address, “When Love Hurts: A Survivor’s Story of Domestic Abuse and Healing,” at the “Break the Silence of Domestic Violence” conference for 180 faith leaders in Tucson on Oct. 24. The conference was sponsored by the Pima County Attorney’s Office and Emerge! Center… Read more »
Former U.S. Rep. GABRIELLE GIFFORDS and her husband, Capt. Mark Kelly, received the Shirley Agnos Legacy Award at the 101st Arizona Town Hall on Civic Leadership, Tuesday, Nov. 27 at Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale. ADAM KWASMAN, a Tucson native, was elected to the Arizona… Read more »
JOSH PROTAS, vice president and director of the Washington D.C., office of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs since 2009, is leaving JCPA to create a Washington office for Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger. Protas was previously senior vice president for planning and community affairs and director of… Read more »
PHYLLIS BRAUN, executive editor of the ARIZONA JEWISH POST, was a panelist at a Pima County/Tucson Women’s Commission seminar Oct. 18 on “How to Get Your Regional News in Print or Online.” Also on the panel were Carolyn Classen, J.D., author of “Carolyn’s Community”on tucsoncitizen.com; Tiffany Kjos, regional editor… Read more »
ARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA’S PBS 6 won six Emmy awards on Oct. 6. The station was nominated for 10 Emmys, more than any television station in the Tucson market, and second highest among public TV stations in the Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and… Read more »
Formerly the director of communications at the Tucson Jewish Community Center, HELEN GOMEZ BERNARD is now leading the external and alumni relations team at the University of Arizona College of Humanities. Marsha Drozdoff, a clinical social worker for more than 30 years, launched her new website… Read more »
ESTHER STERNBERG, MD, has joined the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine as director of research. She also joins the faculty of the UA College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (CALA), where she will establish and direct the Institute on Place and Well-Being. Sternberg is internationally recognized for… Read more »
PATTY VALLANCE has written and published a children’s book, “Born to Wear Blue,” dedicated to the men and women of the fire service (borntowear blue.org). All proceeds benefit the Greater Tucson Fire Foundation. A launch party will be held Sunday, Sept. 30, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the… Read more »
TRISH WINTER-HUNT has been named the new director of marketing, communications and public relations for the TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER. Raised in Tucson, she earned her bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Arizona. Her experience includes building integrated marketing communications strategies for local, regional and national… Read more »
DIANE WEINTRAUB will be honored as the Tucson recipient of the Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award during the 2012 International Lion of Judah Conference in New York, Sept. 10-12. The award is named for Norma Kipnis-Wilson and the late Toby Friedland, who founded the Lions of Judah, a Jewish Federations of North… Read more »
CONGREGATION ANSHEI ISRAEL has been accepted as one of 30 congregations nationally to participate in a new leadership program, “Sulam (ladder) for Emerging Leaders.” United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism piloted the program last year in 10 congregations. The six-week program for 30- to 45-year-olds will be facilitated by Rabbi… Read more »
